Holistic Ministry Service Approach
In our prophetic role, LPAC sets as our Holistic Service Approach:
To help people, institutions, and communities:
ª Determine God's plan for their holistic ministries;
ª Prepare to implement God's plan for their holistic ministries; and
ª Carry out their personal, institutional, ecclesiastical, or social agenda.
Our holistic service approach is based on Captivity Theology, which is our worldview of:
ª God and his Creation;
ª The Fall of Man and man’s subsequent Captivity;
ª Redemption through Jesus Christ and his call to participate in his redemptive work; and
ª The inauguration (start) of the Kingdom of God and the Full Consummation (fulfillment) of God’s Kingdom in the final judgment.
We thank God for granting us a blueprint for becoming partners in our individual and collective liberation. His infallible and inspired Word—the Holy Bible—provides accounts and learnings, which we understand through the lens of Captivity Theology. This worldview promises to challenge and alter our view of God and the world, as well as to guide us toward assuming an active role in God’s plan for liberation and restoration.
We believe that we have been adversely affected by the Fall. People, relationships, systems, structures have all been negatively impacted by the fall. Yet, God’s activity and voice continues to call us and send us even in the midst of our situations of captivity. When we are restored to our relationship with God, we become agents of His Kingdom and instruments of reconciling everyone and everything with God. We are called to serve people by educating, equipping, and empowering others to seek the Kingdom of God and serve God and his people. Seeking the Kingdom of God enables us to transcend the consequences of the fall. This enables us to work out our citizenship in the New Jerusalem promised by God.
In becoming instruments of liberation and restoration, people, institutions, churches engage in Ministering in a Situation of Captivity™—a prophetic act of word and deed, whereby people, institutions, churches, and communities release the power of liberation and life into a particular context of captivity. Consequently, they help other strengthen their gifts and talents, and act on their calling. In the midst of captivity, they serve people and confront systems and structures that help bring about personal, institutional, ecclesiastical, and systemic transformation. Toward this end, they are led by a transcendent vision and historical context, while maintaining prophetic integrity through incarnational engagement.